The Post-Partisan Emporium

 " Voices that are claiming scientific consensus to be on their side that the number of farmed animals and, concurrently, the amounts of animal-sourced foods must be radically reduced or even eliminated are becoming more frequent. These voices risk being caught out as cargo cult scientists." Perspective on scientific truth versus scientific evidence; maintaining integrity in global food systems Peer Ederer Abstract Sciences related to animal agriculture are threatened by agenda-driven scientists. It can be shown that too many peer-reviewed articles have dubious quality, including high-profile ones. Better training and higher review standards for rigour, reproducibility and transparency should help alleviate the problem. However, they will not solve the challenge posed by ‘cargo cult scientists’, as characterised by Richard Feynman. Such agenda-driven scientists pursue an  a priori  mission, whose achievement justifies any means, even if it includes to willfully manipulate...

  What the Left Gets Right—and Why Anti-genocide protestors deserve everyone's support KEVIN BARRETT   The Zionist genocide of Palestine is not a left-versus-right issue. It is a question of right-vs.-wrong. But the media don’t see it that way. They have created an “Overton window” of acceptable mainstream opinion, and divided into two windowpanes: a left windowpane overlooking a scene in which it’s okay to call for a ceasefire as long as you condemn Hamas; and a right windowpane looking out on a madly counterfactual landscape in which Israel is supposedly “defending itself” by slaughtering tens of thousands of women and children. Both perspectives are insane, in the sense that they bear little relation to objective reality. Nobody looking through the mainstream’s Overton window can see what’s really happening in Occupied Palestine. During recent weeks, a snowballing series of student protests on campuses in the US and around the world have challenged the mainstream media’s an...

  Whistling Past the National Train Wreck Pointlessly rearranging the deck chairs DONALD JEFFRIES There are only so many ways one can say that America is collapsing. That the Fat Lady is nearing the end of her song. That we’re running on fumes. If Yogi Berra were around, he’d say it’s over. We had a good run, as far as civilizations go. We  were  the light of the world for a long time. Maybe even Reagan’s shining city upon a hill. Yesterday, Jason Whitlock reported on one Dexter Taylor, a software engineer who was just convicted and sentenced to  ten  years for constructing his own guns without a license. Shades of January 6. Taylor is Black, by the way, for those of you to whom that matters. I don’t expect to see former crack dealer turned FBI informant “Reverend” Al Sharpton leading a protest about  this  particular Black man being a victim of injustice. Our record-setting prisons are overflowing with people like Taylor, of all races. People who most...